"Envoy? That Li Hongji, you say? Seisang's eyes rolled, he thought for a moment, and suddenly noticed, "Keshan, yes, don't say anything about Ulan Sobud to Li Hongji for the time being." ”

"Daddy?" Wu Keshan didn't understand what Seisan was thinking, and he stared at his father's eyes.

Seisang avoided his son's gaze, "Since Shuergege is here, I must marry, let Ulan Sobud play with Li Hongji for a few days, take him around the Horqin grassland, if Li Hongji falls in love with Ulan Sobud, and then let Ulan Sobud marry him." ”

Wu Keshan suddenly realized, he admired his father's old spiciness: "Daddy, I understand, Ulan Sobud accompanied Li Hongji to play in the mountains and rivers, just to avoid Daddy's wedding." ”

"Hmm." Seisang nodded, "You go and talk to your second uncle and Ulan Sobud, so that they can get ready to get married." ”

"Yes, Daddy," Wu Keshan touched his chest with his right hand and saluted to Seisang to express his admiration and admiration for him, "For the sake of Korqin, for the sake of the Borzigit clan, the second uncle and Ulan Sobud will definitely agree." ”

"Well, there you go!" Cesan was relieved that the burden on his shoulders had finally been lifted.

Before Li Hongji got up, he was awakened by the noise outside, and there seemed to be a woman's high-decibel voice in the middle.

"What's going on? Who came to the inn? ”

"My lord, there is a Mongolian woman outside, and she said that she wants to see you, my lord. I told her that before the adults got up and didn't let her in, she waved her horsewhip and beat the inn into a miasma. An attendant happened to open the curtain and report to Li Hongji.

"Mongolian woman?" Li Hongji searched for the memories in his mind, "I don't know any Mongolian women!" ”

"My lord, she said, her name is Ulan Sobud."

"Ulan Sobud?" Li Hongji thought about it, but still had no impression, "I don't know any Ulan Sobud either." ”

He quickly finished dressing, "Let's go, go and see, where the wild girl came from." ”

The attendant lifted the curtain and followed closely by Li Hongji's side.

In the courtyard of the inn, a young girl wearing a fiery red Mongolian robe was standing.

The girl pointed to one of the attendants in the courtyard with her left hand, not knowing what she was saying, but she could guess from her puffed face that it must not be a good thing. In her right hand she held a small pink pony whip, ready to whip it at the attendant, the one commonly used by women, shorter and thinner than the usual one.

No need to ask, she's Ulan Sobud.

"Our adults are here." The squire, whom she pointed with her horsewhip, said in fear.

Ulan Sobud turned sideways, glanced at Li Hongji, and then fixed his gaze on Li Hongji's face, "You are Li Hongji, the messenger of the Ming Dynasty?" ”

Li Hongji is as tall as a pine tree: "It's down there, who is the girl?" Why look for me? ”

"My name is Ulan Sobud." The girl smiled and immediately changed the image of a shrew, she was downright and generous, without the slightest cowardice of a Han woman.

"Ulan Sobud? What are you looking for me? Li Hongji didn't feel familiar at all, it seemed that he really didn't know any Ulan Sobud.

"Lord Li, I am in charge of receiving Lord Li and his party on the orders of my uncle, our tribe has some things, my uncle is very busy, and I don't have time to meet Lord Li for the time being." Ulan Sobud arched her small hand and leaned down, walking exactly the etiquette of the Han people.

Li Hongji looked at Ulan Sobud carefully, in addition to wearing Mongolian clothes, at this moment, she looked like a Han woman, "Who is your uncle?" ”

Ulan Sobud still lowered his head: "My uncle is Taiji of Horqin, Saisang. ”

"Oh, it's Sesantaiji's niece!" Li Hongji took another look, her face was delicate and fair, she was covered with a winter coat, and her figure was not clear, but she was wearing a red robe and holding a horsewhip, but she was particularly heroic, and her body revealed a wild beauty that the Han people did not have.

In front of Li Hongji, her arrogance has indeed been restrained a lot.

"Lady Lee......"

"There's Lao Urangege." Her name is too awkward, Li Hongji is not used to saying it, so he directly changed it to his own smooth name.

"I was ordered by my uncle to receive the envoys from the Ming Dynasty, and Lord Li doesn't have to be polite." Ulan Sobud put away his horsewhip and stuck it on the belt behind his robe, "Master Li, where are we going to play today?" ”

"Play?" Li Hongji almost tilted his nose angrily, "I am a messenger from the Ming Dynasty, and I am here to talk about important matters." ”

"Adults don't need to worry, you talk about important matters, naturally you are looking for my uncle, or Oba Khan, now they are really not free, so the little woman can only receive the adult, but the little woman doesn't know anything important at all, and can only accompany the adult to walk around on the Horqin steppe, scatter your heart, in order to relieve the adult's homesickness."

"Oh!" Li Hongji has figured it out, Oba and Seisan don't have time to meet him now, maybe they haven't figured out how to deal with the olive branch extended by Daming for the time being. So, they sent Ulan Sobud to spend time with them, and they also had more time to think.

"Has Master Li ever been to Horqin before?" Ulan Sobud rubbed her little nose, and she circled around Li Hongji like a tethered horse monkey.

"No, how did I come to Horqin?"

"Master Li, anyway, my uncle doesn't have time to meet you for the time being, and I'm always bored in the inn, so let's go outside for a walk, it just so happens that I haven't ridden a horse for a long time." Ulan Sobud pulled out the whip again, held it in his hand, and shook it a few times, as if he was already driving the horse.

"Do you know how to ride a horse?"

Ulan Sobud also gave Li Hongji a roll of his eyes: "Lord Li, we Mongolian women, who can't ride a horse?" ”

"Oh!" Li Hongji replied vaguely, anyway, he has nothing to do now, and no matter how much Jinzhou has to do, he can't take care of it now, "Ulan Gege, you mean, let's go shopping on the prairie?" ”

"Yes, yes! If you don't know the way, I can be your guide. Ulan Sobud burst into a chorion, and it seemed that she was very eager to go to the depths of the steppe to see.

"And what are we going to prepare?"

"You don't have to prepare anything, as long as you agree, all the items will be prepared by us - who called us the master of Korqin?" Ulan Sobud chuckled, at this moment, she was like a hostess who was entertaining guests, and like a girl who was about to date a lover, both expecting and fearing that the other party would not be satisfied and refused.

"Okay, anyway, I have nothing to do, just take it as a winter trip to Horqin, you are ready, let me know."

"You wait, in half an hour, I can prepare all the belongings, you just prepare the horses to carry them." Ulan Sobud twisted his waist and trotted out of the inn.

Before half an hour arrived, Li Hongji had just eaten breakfast, and there was a noisy sound of people outside, mixed with the sound of horses' hooves stomping on the ground, and his attendant ran over: "My lord, Ulan Sobud Gege is here again." ”

"Ulasobud? How do I hear the sound of many horses outside? ”

"My lord, they were all brought by Ulan Sobud, and they also brought a lot of packages and items."

"What are you carrying a lot of stuff for? Do you want to travel far? Li Hongji wondered, isn't it just a walk on the grassland? Is it worth the trouble? A woman is a woman, and maybe she still has a bronze mirror, rouge, pollen, papyrus or something.

Li Hongji came to the outside of the hospital, and sure enough, it was busy, so it was not lively.

"Ulan Gege, what are you doing with so many items? Are we going to the market? ”

"Master Li came just in time," Ulan Sobud completely ignored Li Hongji's ridicule, perhaps she didn't hear Li Hongji's voice at all, "Quickly put these packages on the back of the horse inside." ”

"Urangege, why do we bring so many items?" Li Hongji stood still, and did not direct the attendants to carry the items.

"You don't understand! This is an indispensable item when living on the grassland. Ulan Sobud twisted his waist, "Lord Li, quickly ask your attendants to lead the horses out." ”

"Horses? How many horses do you need? ”

"You need as many horses as you have, how stupid!" Feeling that Li Hongji looked light-hearted, Ulan Sobud was so angry that he stomped his feet and glared at Li Hongji fiercely, it seemed that if Li Hongji didn't lead the horse out, she would most likely scoop up saliva and swallow him.

Li Hongji had no choice but to wave to the attendants and ask them to lead out all the horses.

He had ten attendants, and with himself, there were eleven men in all, and he also had eleven horses.

Ulan Sobud quickly forgot about her dissatisfaction with Li Hongji, and she was busy, stretching out her fingers and pointing from time to time, directing the attendants who came with her, and putting a big package on the back of each war horse.

Li Hongji doesn't have to worry about anything, he is like a child watching the excitement, in a daze at one package after another, everything is taken care of by Ulan Sobud.

"Master Li, what about the other attendants?" Ulan Sobud is finally done.

"What squire?" Li Hongji pointed to the attendants beside him: "Aren't they?" ”

"Lord Li, your attendants, stay in the inn, there is also nothing to do, why don't you let them go together!"

"Are they all going?" Only then did Li Hongji understand that it was no wonder that she put a large package on the back of each war horse.

"Of course, who else will protect me?" Ulan Sobud raised his neck and looked at Li Hongji defiantly, a strand of her long hair was blown to her mouth by the cold wind, and Ulan Sobud gently brushed it open: "On the Horqin grassland, wolves often appear. ”

"Hey, hey!" Li Hongji couldn't cry or laugh, he was the envoy of the Ming Dynasty, but now he was going to take his attendants to act as this Gege's guard, "Isn't Gege going to bring a guard?" ”

"Bring it, well, they're there!" Ulan Sobud pointed with his hand, and Li Hongji followed the direction of her finger and looked sideways, but only saw two Mongolian girls who were also young.

"Just the two of them?" Li Hongji was stunned, could it be that such a young Mongolian woman turned out to be a martial arts master?

"Yes, they have always been my maids-in-waiting, and I will take them with me wherever I go." Ulan Sobud looked down and smiled, two shallow dimples, looming, much better looking than when she was angry.

Li Hongji frowned: "Can they protect you?" ”

"They may not be able to," Ulan Sobud's face was not red and his heart was not beating, as if Li Hongji was not her honored guest, but her bodyguard, "That's why I asked Master Li to bring all the attendants!" ”

"You ......" Li Hongji really couldn't think of anything to say, so he had to stop talking.

"Master Li, can you go?" Ulan Sobud's expression was relaxed, and he didn't feel Li Hongji's face at all.

"Okay, okay, let's go, listen to Gege." Li Hongji waved his hand and took the lead in stepping on horseback.

"Let's go!" Ulan Sobud shouted, like the head of the group, and then turned his face and snickered alone.

The group all got on the horse, Li Hongji took all ten attendants, and Ulan Sobud only brought two maids.

"Drive!" As soon as he stepped on the horse's back, Ulan Sobud whipped on the horse's buttocks, and the little white horse immediately raised its hooves and galloped forward, and Ulan Sobud also turned his head to look at Li Hongji, and the meaning of provocation was very strong.

Since Li Hongji practiced guns and sticks, and worked as a post guard in Ningxia Town for a few years, his horse control skills are naturally not bad, and Ulan Sobud's provocation, coupled with a little unhappiness just now, his young and frivolous side has been completely stimulated.

He let go of the horse's reins, clamped his legs# to the horse's belly, urged the horse, and chased forward like arrows.

The cold northwest wind whistled past the ears, and the little white horse and the jujube red horse, one after the other, flew in the core area of the Horqin steppe.

A red flame on the back of the little white horse looks very eye-catching on the blue-gray prairie.

Li Hongji crouched on the back of the jujube red horse, his eyes were staring at the flame in front of him, and the route he was chasing would definitely not deviate.